UNAM online spirit, from Mexico to all Spanish speaking teachers and students

UNAM online spirit, from Mexico to all

Spanish speaking teachers and

students

All All UNAMUNAM onlineonlineOCWC Global Conference - April 2014


Marcela Peñaloza, Felipe Bracho and Juan Manuel Castillejos

National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)

2014

All All UNAMUNAM onlineonline

National Autonomous University of

Mexico (UNAM): Relevant aspects



http://www.global.unam.mx/en/cu/aspectosr.html

UNAM Students

8%

58%

34%



58%

Graduate Bachelor High school

UNAM: Services in the Public Interest



http://www.global.unam.mx/en/cu/aspectosr.html

All UNAM online was launched in 2011 and aimsaims

to make all of our public domain content

available to worldwide users under an open

access policy.



All UNAM online

• We hope to upload everything we have in our holdings and let the world have it at no cost.

– from 19th century newspapers and vintage films, to hundreds of thousands of student theses and learning objects –



learning objects –

• Many of the University’s divisions were already converting material to digital form, but this program has quickened the pace

– A continuous web visibility improvement approach

We make this effort so that the products and resources of the

University can reach the most Mexican and Spanish speakers

possible.

Anybody can see the quality of teaching or research, the diversity

of topics that the institution covers, and this way give back to

society what we do with its financial support.



society what we do with its financial support.

It is a key to UNAM’s social mission as a public institution: provide

high quality content in online resources to populations usually high quality content in online resources to populations usually

underrepresented in the higher education systemunderrepresented in the higher education system, to anyone who

desires to access them.

All digital resources remain in their original

websites

http://www.unamenlinea.unam.mx/



http://www.unamenlinea.unam.mx/http://www.unamenlinea.unam.mx/



All UNAM onlineAll UNAM online was created to was created to

reinforce current and future UNAM reinforce current and future UNAM

actions for placing valuable content actions for placing valuable content

near the learner:near the learner:

our students, of course, but also our students, of course, but also



our students, of course, but also our students, of course, but also

people who want to complement people who want to complement

traditional education (all levels).traditional education (all levels).

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Relating educational resources with current curriculaRelating educational resources with current curricula

Some UNAM efforts (2008-to date)




Repositories

Moodle

servers

Educational resources: interactive, videos,

PDFs, docs, apps, etc.

Web sites

and portals

>15,000

All UNAM Online

Coverage of

current

syllabus

Technical

Web

Visibility

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Educational resources

production (public, free,

related to specific parts of

subjects in curricula)

>15,000

Learning University

Network

Visibility

compliance

Academic

validation

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http://www.rua.unam.mx/http://www.rua.unam.mx/

• Beta version; to be released in August, 2014.

– Focus on high school subjects (>4,000 resources)




– Focus on high school subjects (>4,000 resources)

– Some subjects for bachelor level.

– Common topics:

• Health issues

• Academic writing

Provide students with tools to

study anytime, anyplace, at their

very self-pace, using the type of

content that is suitable to his/her

personal learning style (Wind and Reibstein,


http://noticias.universia.net.mx/en-portada/noticia/2013/08/30/1045995/ahora-es-

posible-estar-conectado-autobus.html



personal learning style 2000)

– Increased emphasis on curricular

modularity

– Shorter sequences

http://www.zocalo.com.mx/seccion/articulo/telcel-encabeza-lista-de-quejas-1362519658Average time of transportation to University: 2 hoursAverage time of transportation to University: 2 hoursTerrazas, O., Rodríguez, E. and García, J. (2013). Las instituciones de educación superior en la

centralidad metropolitana de la ciudad de México. México: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

• Faculty members often resist using whole courses that someone

else has developed (“academic freedom”)

• With RUA, teachers find different options to enrich their courses


• They can make their very own

suggestions on how to extend



suggestions on how to extend

the RUA catalog

– With their own production

– With open online resources they

have proven useful

Personal Web Pages for Teachers and Researchers



Challenge: Teacher training



• 3 courses: “Scientific thinking”, “Being more creative”, and

“ICT in education”

– Over 96,000 students from 108 different countries

• Mexico, Spain, Colombia, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, United States,

Venezuela, Guatemala and Ecuador, among others.

• More than 22,000 students registered in the first “ICT in



• More than 22,000 students registered in the first “ICT in

Education” MOOC

– Over 13,000 of them actively participated in the course, generating

over 10,000 forum entries in 1,345 discussion threads; 1,540 students

delivered their final project.

Enríquez, L. (2014). “UNAM en Coursera, la experiencia del professor en un MOOC con 17 mil alumnos”.

issu.com/vinculotic/docs/unam_en_coursera_ticeducacion_2014 accessed March 15, 2014.



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http://www.apps.unam.mx/http://www.apps.unam.mx/• More than 70 learning apps have been generated by high school professors,

in collaboration with technical and pedagogical experts (2012-2013).

• At the same time, other professors learn how to use mobile applications in

their everyday teaching, and ICT infrastructure is improved in high school

spaces



http://www.descargacultura.unam.mx/http://www.descargacultura.unam.mx/



Public, free service where more than 500 podcasts are available

online, including science, poetry, short stories, essays, radio dramas,

music, conferences, courses and more.

• People from 144 different countries have made more than 2.8 million

downloads in this service.

• Collaboration with high school teachers

• Permanent training teachers program

• Study on how evaluation is done in the classroom

• Dissemination of Math Culture



– Contests

– Movie debates

– Pi Day

• Development of competences for the use of ICT to make learning and problem solving easier

Policies and guidelines;

Institutional network of local

representatives

Peer-to-Peer Best

Practices sharing

Training (both technical

staff, teachers and

producers) & tools

disseminationAllAll

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Challenge: Organizational cultural change to open open perspective

Acknowledgements

• Dirección General de Evaluación Institucional.

• Coordinación de Universidad Abierta y Educación a Distancia.

• Secretaría de Desarrollo Institucional.

• Secretaría de Extensión de la Coordinación de Difusión Cultural.

• Coordinación de Innovación y Desarrollo.



• Escuela Nacional Preparatoria

• Colegio de Ciencias y Humanidades.

• Dirección General de Cómputo y de Tecnologías de Información y

Comunicación.

Contacts:

Marcela Peñaloza-Báez

[email protected]

Juan Manuel Castillejos

[email protected]

[email protected]



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Facebook: /TodalaUNAMenlinea

Twitter: @Toda_la_UNAM

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